3.2 → 0.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Willoughby East · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Willoughby East
How families and households are made up across the area.
Crowded homes are common in Willoughby East, where 3.2 people typically share a roof. This is well above the national figure of 2.5 and is among the highest levels for similar areas. Most households here are larger families rather than individuals living alone.
3.2
→ 0.0%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Willoughby East — higher than 89% of areas.
| Willoughby East | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 2068, NSW | 2.8 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 9.5% of people live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. These small numbers of single-person homes help explain why the typical household is so large, with 28.9% of homes housing four people.
9.5% ▼ -20.9%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Willoughby East splits fairly evenly between 4 people (29%) and 2 people (27%), with 3 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the vast majority of families at 77.2%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for just 5.9%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
5.9% ▼ -27.2%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Willoughby East, Couples with children is the majority at 77%; Couples without children is next at 16%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Willoughby East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14321/willoughby-east/topic/family-households